Regionalisms, New York vs. Chicago - Re: Death by Chocolate

[Ittaob at AOL.COM]

While US commercial producers and their customers make no distinction beween penne and mostaccioli, a Google search yelded the information that mostaccioli are properly somewhat larger than penne. See, e.g., http://www.moccagatta.com/prod2.html

(This is the online catalog of a pasta company in Italy.)

BTW, "penne" means "quills" and "mostaccioli" means "mustaches."

Steve Boatti